 It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth. Topics: Truth
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also. Topics: Truth
Source: The Allegory of Love |
| If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all. Topics: Truth
Source: The Abolition of Man |
| The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time. Topics: Truth, Time |
| There are no variations except for those who know a norm, and no subtleties for those who have not grasped the obvious. Topics: Truth
Source: An Experiment in Criticism |
| Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned? Topics: Truth
Source: Letters to Malcolm |
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| 'We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge--the last thing we know before things become too swift for us.' Topics: Truth, Light
Source: Out of the Silent Planet |
| In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are. Topics: Truth, Contentment |
| Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth, you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. Topics: Truth |
| If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair. Topics: Truth, Comfort |
| Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Topics: Truth |
| The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. Topics: Truth, Examples |
